This document contains quotes about Easter from various sources such as religious figures, poets, and authors. The quotes discuss Easter as a symbol of hope, new life, sacrifice, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. They describe how Easter represents the triumph over death and the promise of eternal life. Several quotes reference the beauty of springtime and nature renewing itself as a metaphor for Easter.

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EPAL ALMYROU

2. “Easter was when hope
in person surprised the
whole world by
coming forward from
the future into the
present”
N.T. Wright

3. “Easter spells out
beauty, the rare beauty
of new life.“
S.D. Gordon

4. "Do not abandon
yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter
people and hallelujah
is our song."
Pope John Paul II

5. "A man who was
completely innocent,
offered himself as a
sacrifice for the good
of others, including his
enemies, and became
the ransom of the
world.
It was a perfect act."
Mahatma Gandhi

6. "On Easter Day the veil
between time and
eternity thins to
gossamer." --
Douglas Horton

7. "The joyful news that He is
risen does not change the
contemporary world. Still
before us lie work,
discipline, sacrifice. But
the fact of Easter gives us
the spiritual power to do
the work, accept the
discipline, and make the
sacrifice."
Henry Knox Sherrill

8. “ And he departed
from our sight that we
might return to our
heart, and there find
Him. For He
departed, and behold,
He is here.“
St. Augustine, Confessions

9. "Angels, roll the rock
away;
/ Death, yield up thy
mighty prey:
/ See, He rises from the
tomb,
/ Glowing with
immortal bloom."
Thomas Scott, "Easter
Angels"

10. “Christmas and Easter
can be subjects for
poetry, but Good Friday,
like Auschwitz, cannot.
The reality is so horrible
it is not surprising that
people should have
found it a stumbling
block to faith."
W.H. Auden

11. "If Easter says anything
to us today, it says
this: You can put truth
in a grave, but it won't
stay there. You can
nail it to a cross, wrap
it in winding sheets
and shut it up in a
tomb, but it will rise!"
Clarence W. Hall

12. "For I remember it is
Easter morn,
/ And life and love and
peace are all new
born."
Alice Freeman Palmer

13. "a stone at dawn
/ cold water in the basin
/ these walls' rough
plaster
/ imageless..."
Amy Clampitt, Easter
Morning

14. "I think of the garden
after the rain;
/ And hope to my heart
comes singing,
/ 'At morn the cherry-
blooms will be white,
/ And the Easter bells be
ringing!'"
Edna Dean Proctor,
"Easter Bells"

15. "To the cold, dark grave
they go
/ Silently and sad and
slow,
/ From the light of
happy skies
/ And the glance of
mortal eyes."
Paul Laurence
Dunbar, An Easter
Ode

16. “Unfortunately there is
nothing more inane
than an Easter carol. It
is a religious
perversion of the
activity of Spring in
our blood."
Wallace Stevens

17. “Our Lord has written
the promise of the
resurrection, not in
books alone, but in
every leaf in spring –
time”
Martin Luther King

18. "The story of Easter is
the story of God's
wonderful window of
divine surprise."
Carl Knudsen

19. "The great gift of Easter
is hope..."
Basil C. Hume

20. "If anyone or anything
tries to curse or kill the
Goodness at the Center
of all things, it will just
keep coming back to
life. Forever Easter."
David Housholder, The
Blackberry Bush

21. "O the Easter bells are
gladly ringing,
/ Let the whole world
join the happy lay,
/ Let the hills and vales
break forth in
singing, / Christ, the
Lord of Life, is ris'n
today."
Lizzie Akers, "Easter